English Abstract: The Israeli Supervisor of Banks has two important mandates: Maintaining the stability of the banking …, the conclusion is that both powers should be handled by the Supervisor of Banks, subject to a few operational …

concentration, the industrial policy of the government, and the banks' involvement in the financing of the non-financial economy. We … see a hierarchical multi-tier banking system headed by a few core state-controlled banks. These combine commercial … influence on the banks' lending decisions and market behavior. We argue that the Chinese and Russian banking provide empirical …